Complete Cast of the Pink Panther Strikes Again
| The Pink Panther Strikes Again | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Blake Edwards |
| Screenplay by | Frank Waldman Blake Edwards |
| Produced past | Blake Edwards Tony Adams (Associate Producer) Animation: Richard Williams |
| Starring | Peter Sellers Herbert Lom Colin Blakely Leonard Rossiter Lesley-Anne Down |
| Cinematography | Harry Waxman |
| Edited by | Alan Jones |
| Music by | Henry Mancini |
| Production | Amjo Productions |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release dates |
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| Running time | 103 minutes |
| Countries | United Kingdom Us |
| Language | English language |
| Upkeep | $half dozen 1000000 |
| Box function | $75 million[1] |
The Pink Panther Strikes Again is a 1976 comedy film. The fifth film in The Pinkish Panther series, its plot picks up three years after The Return of the Pink Panther, with former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) about to be released from a psychiatric hospital after having finally been driven insane by new Principal Inspector Jacques Clouseau'south (Peter Sellers) unrelenting ineptitude in the previous films. A typically disastrous visit from Clouseau on the day of his release prompts a swift relapse which cancels Dreyfus'southward scheduled discharge, only he soon escapes anyhow, and organizes an elaborate criminal plot to threaten the countries of the globe with annihilation by a massive light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation weapon if they practise non assassinate Clouseau for him.
Unused footage from the flick was later on included in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), after Sellers' decease.
Plot [edit]
After three years in a psychiatric hospital, former Chief Inspector of the Sûreté Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), has recovered from his obsession to kill Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers) and is about to be released; Clouseau, who has since replaced Dreyfus equally Master Inspector, arrivies unannounced to speak on behalf of his quondam boss, and inside minutes drives Dreyfus insane again. Dreyfus later escapes from the hospital and once more tries to impale Clouseau past planting a bomb while the Inspector (by periodic arrangement) duels with his manservant Cato (Burt Kwouk). The flop destroys Clouseau's flat and injures Cato, simply Clouseau himself is unharmed, being lifted from the room by an inflatable hunchback disguise. Deciding that a more elaborate programme is needed to eliminate Clouseau, Dreyfus enlists an army of career criminals to his cause and kidnaps nuclear physicist Professor Hugo Fassbender (Richard Vernon) and the Professor's girl Margo (Briony McRoberts), forcing the professor to build a "doomsday weapon" in return for his daughter'due south freedom.
Clouseau travels to the UK to investigate Fassbender'southward disappearance, where he wrecks their family dwelling house and ineptly interrogates Jarvis (Michael Robbins), Fassbender'southward cross-dressing butler. Although Jarvis is after killed by the kidnappers, to whom he had become a unsafe witness, Clouseau discovers a clue that leads him to the Oktoberfest in Munich, Due west Frg. Meanwhile, Dreyfus, using Fassbender's invention, disintegrates the United nations headquarters in New York Urban center and blackmails the leaders of the world, including the President of the United States and his Secretary of State (based on Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger), into assassinating Clouseau. Yet, many of the nations instruct their operatives to kill Clouseau to gain Dreyfus's favor and possibly the Doomsday Auto. Every bit a effect of their orders and Clouseau'south obliviousness, all of the other assassins end upwardly killing 1 another until only the agents of Arab republic of egypt and Russia remain.
The Egyptian assassin (Omar Sharif) shoots one of Dreyfus' assassins, mistaking him for Clouseau, but is seduced by the Russian operative Olga Bariosova (Lesley-Anne Downward), who makes the same mistake. When the real Clouseau arrives, he is perplexed by Olga's affections but learns from her Dreyfus'south location at a castle in Bavaria. Dreyfus is elated at the erroneous study of Clouseau's demise, but suffers from a painful toothache and sends for a dentist; when Clouseau hears a dentist is needed at the castle, he disguises himself equally an elderly German dentist and finally gains entry to the castle (his earlier attempts at sneaking in the castle had been repeatedly foiled past his general ineptitude and the castle's drawbridge). Unrecognized by Dreyfus, Clouseau ends up intoxicating both of them with nitrous oxide. When 'the dentist' mistakenly pulls the wrong tooth, Dreyfus immediately figures out information technology is Clouseau in disguise. Clouseau escapes, and a vengeful and now totally insane Dreyfus prepares to employ the machine to destroy England. Clouseau, eluding Dreyfus's henchmen, unwittingly foils Dreyfus's plans when a medieval catapult exterior the castle launches him on pinnacle of the doomsday auto, causing information technology to malfunction and burn down on Dreyfus and the castle itself. As the remaining henchmen, Fassbender and his girl, and somewhen Clouseau himself escape the dissolving castle, Dreyfus plays "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" on the castle's pipe organ while he himself disintegrates, until he and the castle vanish.
Returning to Paris, Clouseau is finally reunited with Olga. However, their tryst is interrupted first by Clouseau's apparent disability to remove his clothes, and so past Cato's latest surprise attack, which causes all three to be hurled into the river Seine when the reclining bed snaps back upright and crashes through the wall. Immediately thereafter, a cartoon image of Clouseau emerges from the water, which has been tinted pink, and begins swimming, unaware that a gigantic version of the Pink Panther character is waiting below him with a sharp-toothed, open rima oris (a reference to the then-contempo picture Jaws, made farther obvious by the thematic music). The motion picture ends as the animated Clouseau chases the Pink Panther upward the Seine every bit the credits gyre.
Cast [edit]
- Peter Sellers as Primary Inspector Jacques Clouseau
- Herbert Lom as Old Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus
- Leonard Rossiter as Superintendent Quinlan
- Lesley-Anne Downwardly every bit Olga Bariosova
- Colin Blakely as Inspector Alec Drummond
- Burt Kwouk as Cato Fong
- André Maranne equally François
- Michael Robbins every bit Ainsley Jarvis
- Richard Vernon every bit Professor Hugo Fassbender
- Briony McRoberts as Margo Fassbender
- Dick Crockett as the President of the United States (Gerald Ford)
- Byron Kane as the The states Secretary of State (Henry Kissinger)
- Paul Maxwell as CIA Director
- Gordon Rollings as Inmate
- Dudley Sutton every bit Inspector Mclaren
- John Clive as Chuck
- Damaris Hayman as Fiona
- Deep Roy equally Diminutive Assassin
Cast notes [edit]
- Owing to Peter Sellers's heart condition, whenever possible he would have his stunt double Joe Dunne stand in for him. Because of the oftentimes physical nature of the comedy, this would occur quite frequently.
- Julie Andrews provided the singing vocalism for the female-impersonator "Ainsley Jarvis".[2] The scene in the nightclub when Jarvis sings is in many means similar to scenes in Edwards's afterwards moving-picture show Victor Victoria (1982), in which Andrews plays a woman pretending to exist a man who is a female impersonator.
- Graham Stark, a longtime friend of Sellers, once again made an advent in the serial, admitting in a pocket-size part as the desk clerk of a pocket-sized German language hotel. Since his part as Hercule LaJoy in A Shot in the Dark, he has appeared in small-scale roles in every Pink Panther sequel except Inspector Clouseau, in which Sellers did not play Clouseau.
- Scenes featuring Harvey Korman every bit Professor Auguste Assurance and Marne Maitland every bit Deputy Commissioner Lasorde were deleted from the pic, but were subsequently seen in total in Trail of the Pink Panther in 1982. Graham Stark would assume the role of Professor Balls in the side by side pic, Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978).
- Omar Sharif appeared, uncredited, as the Egyptian assassinator.
- Tom Jones sang the Oscar-nominated song "Come up to Me".
- The role of Olga Bariosova was originally played by Maud Adams, who was replaced afterward filming a few scenes. Blake Edwards and then intended to bandage Nicola Pagett after seeing her in Upstairs, Downstairs but instead ended up casting Pagett'due south castmate Lesley-Anne Down in the role.
- Though the character of the President of the United States (portrayed by Dick Crockett) is unnamed in the film, information technology is evidently based on then electric current US President Gerald Ford; Crockett bore more than a passing resemblance to the President and Ford's somewhat exaggerated reputation for clumsiness every bit depicted in the film was a national joke at the fourth dimension. The President'south unnamed somber Secretarial assistant of Country (portrayed past Byron Kane) is obviously based on then electric current Secretarial assistant Henry Kissinger.
- Blake Edwards fabricated a cameo advent in the background of the nightclub scene.
Production [edit]
The Pink Panther Strikes Over again was rushed into production attributable to the success of The Return of the Pink Panther.[iii] Blake Edwards had adjusted one of two scripts that he and Frank Waldman had written for a proposed "Pinkish Panther" Tv set series as the basis for that picture, and he adapted the other every bit the starting point for Strikes Again. As a result, it is the only Pink Panther sequel which has a storyline (Dreyfus in the insane aviary) that explicitly follows from the previous film. Oddly, the plot has nothing to do with the famous "Pink Panther diamond" of previous films, but comes off more like a parody of James Bond movies.
The movie was in production from Dec 1975 to September 1976, with primary photography taking place between February and June 1976.[four] The strained relationship between Sellers and Blake Edwards had further deteriorated by the time production of Strikes Again was underway. Sellers was ailing both mentally and physically, and Edwards later commented on the player's mental state during product of the motion picture: "If you went to an aviary and you described the first inmate you saw, that'due south what Peter had get. He was certifiable."[3]
The original cut of the film ran for around 180 minutes, just was drastically trimmed downwardly to 103 minutes for theatrical release. Edwards originally conceived Strikes Once again equally an ballsy, zany chase picture show, similar to Edwards' earlier The Neat Race, merely UA vetoed this long version and the picture show was edited down to a more conventional length. Some of the excised footage was later used in Trail of the Pink Panther. Strikes Once again was marketed with the tagline Why are the globe's chief assassins after Inspector Clouseau? Why non? Everybody else is. Like its predecessor and subsequent sequel, the film was a box office success.
During the film's title sequence, there are references to tv set'south Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Batman, likewise the films King Kong, The Audio of Music (which starred Blake Edwards'southward married woman, Julie Andrews), Dracula A.D. 1972, Singin' in the Rain, Steamboat Bill, Jr. and Sweet Clemency, putting the Pink Panther character and the animated persona of Inspector Clouseau into recognizable events from said movies. There is also a reference to Jaws in the ending credits sequence. The scene in which Clouseau impersonates a dentist and the use of laughing gas and pulling the wrong molar are clearly inspired past Bob Hope in The Paleface (1948).[5]
Richard Williams (afterward of Roger Rabbit fame) supervised the animation of the opening and closing sequences for the second and final time; original animators DePatie-Freleng Enterprises would return on the next moving picture, only with incomparably Williamesque influences.
Sellers was unhappy with the concluding cutting of the motion picture and publicly criticized Blake Edwards for misusing his talents. Their tense human relationship is noted in the adjacent Pinkish Panther movie'due south opening credits (Revenge of the Pink Panther) listing it as a "Sellers-Edwards" production.
French comic volume writer René Goscinny of Asterix fame was reportedly trying to sue Blake Edwards for plagiarism at the time of his death in 1977 subsequently noticing stiff similarities to a script titled "Le Maître du Monde" (The Main of the Earth) which he had sent Peter Sellers in 1975.[vi]
Reception [edit]
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approving rating of 76% based on 21 reviews, with an boilerplate score of 7.twenty/10.[7]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Dominicus-Times gave the film two and a one-half stars out of four and wrote, "If I'm less than totally enthusiastic about The Pink Panther Strikes Over again, maybe it was because I've been over this ground with Clouseau many times earlier," stating that a fourth dimension would have to come "when inspiration gives way to habit, and I think the Pink Panther serial is only about at that point. That's not to say this film isn't funny—information technology has moments as good as anything Sellers and Edwards have e'er done—only that it's time for them to move on. They worked together once on the funniest movie either one has always done, The Party. Now information technology'south time to try something new again."[eight]
Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote that the characters of Clouseau and Dreyfus "were made for each other," and further stated, "I'grand not certain why Mr. Sellers and Mr. Lom are such a hilarious team, though it may be because each is a fine comic actor with a special talent for portraying the sort of all-consuming, epic self-assimilation that makes slapstick farce initially acceptable—instead of alarming—and finally so funny." Canby also enjoyed Clouseau's French emphasis, and wrote, "Both Mr. Sellers and Mr. Edwards delight in old gags, and part of the joy of The Pinkish Panther Strikes Again is watching the way they spin out what is essentially a single routine".[9]
The film earned theatrical rentals of $nineteen.5 million in the United States and Canada[10] from a gross of $33.viii million.[xi] Internationally, it earned rentals of $10.5 meg for a worldwide total of $30 1000000.[10] By March 1978, the film had grossed $75 million worldwide and was hoping to earn another $8 million by the finish of the yr.[1]
Awards [edit]
- The screenwriters, Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman received a 1977 Writers Guild of America Award for "Best Comedy Adapted from Some other Medium". The picture show also won a 1978 Evening Standard British Film Award for "Best Comedy".
- "Come to Me", written by Henry Mancini (music) and Don Black (lyrics), received an University Award nomination for "All-time Song" at the 49th Academy Awards.
- The flick was nominated for a 1977 Gilded World Honor for "All-time Motion Picture", and Peter Sellers was nominated for "Best Motion Picture Role player – Musical/Comedy".[12]
- American Film Found Lists
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs – Nominated[13]
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Moving-picture show Quotes:
- "Does your domestic dog bite?" – Nominated[fourteen]
References [edit]
- ^ a b "New 'Pink Panther,' Set For July Bow, Tops $seven-Mil in Blind Bids". Variety. 22 March 1978. p. 39.
- ^ Allmovie Cast
- ^ a b Thames, Stephanie "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" (TCM article)
- ^ IMDB Business organisation Data
- ^ Starks, Michael (October 1982). Cocaine fiends and Reefer madness: an illustrated history of drugs in the movies. Cornwall Books. p. 190. ISBN978-0-8453-4504-7.
- ^ (in French) Pascal Ory, Goscinny (1926–wall): la Liberté d'en rire, Paris: Perrin, 2007, ISBN 978-2-262-02506-ix, p. 221.
- ^ The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Rotten Tomatoes, retrieved xix March 2022
- ^ Ebert, Roger (twenty Dec 1976). "The Pink Panther Strikes Once more Review (1976)". Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (xvi December 1976). "Pink Panther Team Unflappable In 4th Loftier-Spirited Antic". The New York Times . Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ a b "UA Flick Rental Highlights of 1977". Variety. 11 January 1978. p. 3.
- ^ "The Pinkish Panther Strikes Again, Box Office Information". Box Role Mojo. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
- ^ IMDB Awards
- ^ AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs Nominees
- ^ AFI's 100 Years...100 Moving picture Quotes Nominees
External links [edit]
- The Pinkish Panther Strikes Again at IMDb
- The Pink Panther Strikes Once more at the TCM Film Database
- The Pinkish Panther Strikes Once again at AllMovie
- The Pink Panther Strikes Over again at the American Motion-picture show Plant Catalog
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